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Some time on January 31, 1984, in a grotto in the Longford town of Granard, 15-year-old schoolgirl Ann Lovett gave birth to a baby boy.
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Almost 40 years after the 15-year-old schoolgirl died after giving birth in a grotto, a new film tackles a difficult and sensitive subject
On Saturday, February 4, 1984, at the end of The Late Late Show, Gay Byrne took his customary glance through the Sunday papers and stopped at a headline. “Girl, 15, dies giving birth in a field,” he read out, then added, “nothing terribly exciting there” before throwing the newspaper to the studio floor.
Actor Aisling Kearns tells CARA O’DOHERTY about her new film, Barber, which stars Aiden Gillen and Cork’s own Camille O’Sullivan
The stars of a film that was shot in County Roscommon have been nominated for two Irish Film and Television Academy Awards (IFTA). ‘Ann’, which was shot in…